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gg

/d͡ʒiːd͡ʒiː/UK/dʒiː dʒiː/

gg is the initialism of good game.

gg is the initialism of good going.

Meaning of good game

Phrase

good game

  1. Good job, well done! Used to acknowledge the opponent's performance at the end of a game.
    Synonyms:
    well played

Meaning of good going

Interjection

  1. well done; congratulations

Noun (1)

gg

  1. (Internet, broadly, slang) Loss, defeat, game over.
    • Nature's Prophet going to get the last hit in as well. It's the entire team down for EHOME. This is GG.2014 March 19, Free to Play (Film), spoken by Announcer

Noun (2) capitalized: GG

GG (plural GGs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of governor general or governor-general.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of generative grammar.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, offensive, LGBTQ slang) Initialism of genetic girl or genuine girl.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of girl/girl.

Interjection capitalized: GG

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of good game; commonly used at the end of a gaming match; also sometimes used to end an argument.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of good going; may be used genuinely or sarcastically.

Adjective capitalized: GG

GG (not comparable)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial, informal) Likely to have an undesirable outcome, which one cannot change or escape from.
    • Physics test today was out of the world…Honestly I think I’m going to fail big time…I didn’t know I had to study statics! What’s the point in testing LAST year’s work? Like wtf lawl…So i think I flung that section…GG liao lor…2007 March 7, Thomas Kwok, Camping Grounds 2.0, What a week, accessed on 2015-10-22
    • Liverpool GG liao la. Steven Jialat hamstring problem. Dirk Kuyt ankle problem. take west ham win this saturday.2010 November 18, QQfufa, Hardware Zone Singapore, Liverpool GG liao la, accessed on 2015-10-22
  2. That lets the player doing/using it win a game, with zero possibility of counterplay.

Proper noun capitalized: GG

GG

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Gamergate /GamerGate.
  2. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Google Groups.
    • I also created a "NO GG" badge for the footer (and put it on Blinkynet, as well, linking to the new site) in the mode of the other badges from other outfits that I already had there. :)2007 August 30, Blinky the Shark, “news”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2026
    • There are a lot of disadvantages to using googlegroups GG to read and post to usenet groups. There's the problem with the clunky interface, there's the problem with GG inability to filter some newsposts, there's the disadvantage of having to post a good address in the From, there's the disadvantage...2007 September 6, Mike Easter, “Help required with newsreader.”, in alt.free.newsservers (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2026

Noun (3) capitalized: Gg

Gg (plural Gg)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of gigagram.

Synonyms of gg

Forms of gg

Interjection
alternative formGG
alternative formgg
Noun
pluralGGs
alternative formG.G.
alternative formG. G.
alternative formG.-G.
alternative formG-G
pluralGg

Words formed from gg

Phrases with gg

Questions about gg

What does gg mean?
Gg means loss, defeat, game over.
What is gg the initialism of?
Gg is the initialism of good game.
What part of speech is gg?
Gg can be a noun, an interjection, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gg?
Gg is pronounced /d͡ʒiːd͡ʒiː/.
What is the plural of gg?
The plural of gg is GGs.

Words near gg in the dictionary

  1. GFU
  2. GFW
  3. gfx
  4. GFY
  5. GFYS
  6. gg
  7. GG no re
  8. gganbu
  9. GGBFS
  10. GGBS
  11. GGE

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gg (page history and authors); GG (page history and authors); Gg (page history and authors); good game (page history and authors); good going (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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